[Openchrome-users] automake 1.4 and man/Makefile.am

Xavier Bachelot xb_ml
Tue Nov 21 06:57:24 PST 2006


Michael Moerz wrote:
> automake 1.4 is still very widely used.
> 
> the current svn trunk has got a man/Makefile.am that breaks compilation 
> with automake1.4 with following error:
> 
...snip...

> man/Makefile.am:30: invalid unused variable name: `driverman_SOURCES'
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> 
> the supplied svn diff patch removes the problem by renaming the 
> variable, since _SOURCES variables are identified by automake as 
> variables defining lists of files that have to be compiled in one way or 
> the other.
> 
The patch also removes a warning when building with automake 1.9 and 
doesn't break anything. imho, the patch is ok. I'll commit it if no one 
screams.

Regards,
Xavier




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